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James Livaudais entered the service in March 1942. His division was to be the Sergeant York Division. The decision...

Samuel W. Smith was sent to California for preflight school. They were put on a troop train for Santa Ana, California....

Upon his arrival in the United States, Robert Joseph Blatnik was transferred from a hospital in South Carolina to one...

[Annotator's Note: Wallace Yip, Sr. was drafted in 1943.] Congress started drafting 18 year olds who registered [...

Edgar R. "Ross" Forman was born in October 1923 in Camden, New Jersey, and would serve with the 319th Engineer Combat...

Joseph Dean Reilly had a deferment [Annotator's Note: postponement of military service] because he was working for a...

There was a lot of "oohs and ahhs" at the mission briefing [Annotator's Note: for Victor Fienup's 17 August 1943...

Louis Cardenas remembers that they were taken from the capture site to Bucharest, Romania, the capital city. They were...

[Annotator's Note: Joseph O'Donnell was a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft IV near Gross Tychow, Pomerania, now Tychowo,...

Harold Roed spent a year and a half at Saint Olaf [Annotator's Note: Saint Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota], a...

Lloyd Reese had been liberated from a prisoner-of-war camp in Romania in September 1945 and returned to the United...

Between high school and college, Christa Schneider worked as an au pair in Britain. She cared for the three children of...

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